Higgs - The last piece of nuclear physics exists?

Nuclear physics is not a popular topic like politics or celebrity, but the story of the Higgs has attracted many people's attention because of its mystery. Perhaps because the Higgs has a very special nickname: 'God's Particle' , it was this name that made the media flutter. Moreover, many people believe the hypothesis that the Higgs is the cause of the existence of weight in the universe, making people more curious about this type of particle. If the Higgs particle really exists, humans are very anxious to find it.

To better understand the Higgs, we need to understand one of the remarkable theories about how the universe works: the standard model. The standard model is based on particle physics, and physicists have attempted to simplify the complexity of the universe on the most basic components. This is a great challenge that people have stumbled for centuries. First, we discover atoms, then protons, neutrons and electrons, quarks, leptons. But the universe not only has matter, it also includes the physical field acting on those matter. The standard model gives us a better view of the types of matter, force and possibly other theories.

Simulation of particle collisions to find the Higgs.

One of the main ideas in the standard model, developed in 1970: The entire universe was created by 12 physical particles and 4 different fields. Of these 12 counties, we have 6 quarks and 6 leptons. The quark group has protons and neutrons, the lepton group has electrons and electron neutrinos, a particle that doesn't carry an electrical charge. Scientists believe that the particles of the quark and lepton groups cannot be seen, and cannot separate them into smaller particles. Along with these particles, the standard model also has four physical fields: gravity, electromagnetic force, strong and weak.

However, the standard model still does not explain the existence of gravity. Based on the standard model, scientists have predicted the existence of many particles before officially discovering them. But this model still lacks a piece - the Higgs Particle.

The Higgs, the last piece

Scientists believe that all four physics fields carry corresponding particles and have an effect on matter. This is a difficult concept, many of us think that physics is a mysterious, unrealistic thing, located at the boundary between existence and non-existence. However, in fact, the physical field is also a form of matter.

Simulating the decay of the Higgs particle.

Scientists believe that each physics field has its own elementary particle. The electromagnetic field depends on the photon to be able to convert into matter. Scientists believe that the Higgs also has a similar function - converting gravity into weight.

So matter cannot have mass if you install the Higgs. Scientists have found a way to explain this, assuming that particles are inherently massless, but they obtain mass by passing through another field, also known as the Higgs field. The photon particle can pass through this field without being affected, however the W or Z particle passing through will carry mass. All matter with mass are interacting with the Higgs field. Unlike other physical fields, the Higgs field is present everywhere in the universe, and it needs a particle to be able to affect other particles, which is the Higgs particle.

Until January 2012, we have yet to find concrete evidence to prove that the Higgs particle exists, but many physicists are working with particle accelerators hoping to find this particle soon. Through many experiments, they narrowed the mass by which the Higgs particle could exist, then used a particle accelerator to find its trace.

The experiments at the end of 2011 showed very positive results. Both particle accelerators found traces of the existence of the Higgs. And we need more experiments to formally claim that the Higgs is real. The result of this search will promote the exploration of the universe of humanity.